The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd Line Support role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3rd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the West Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support
Rank 79 75 52
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -23
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 12 15 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.943% 0.927% 1.715%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.995% 0.981% 1.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £275 £270 £248
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £258 £238
% change year-on-year
+4.85% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.15% -23.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.03 £21.25
% change year-on-year
+12.33% -5.74%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1206 1529 1042
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.74% 94.50% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 849 482
Average daily rate £313 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 70 75
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.64 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
3rd Line Support
Yorkshire

3rd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Yorkshire 3rd Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 3rd Line Support Daily Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3rd Line Support across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 3rd Line Support Hourly Rate Trend

3rd Line Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leeds -1 10 £275 +1.85%
3rd Line Support
Yorkshire

3rd Line Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited 3rd Line Support in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with 3rd Line Support in their job title.

1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (61.11%) MS Exchange
3 11 (61.11%) Cisco
3 11 (61.11%) SAN
3 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2003
4 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
5 7 (38.89%) Windows XP
5 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
5 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
5 7 (38.89%) LAN
5 7 (38.89%) NAS
6 6 (33.33%) F5
6 6 (33.33%) WAN
6 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (33.33%) MCSE
6 6 (33.33%) VMware
7 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (22.22%) vSphere
8 4 (22.22%) SQL
8 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
9 3 (16.67%) NetApp
9 3 (16.67%) Citrix
9 3 (16.67%) Oracle
9 3 (16.67%) SCCM
9 3 (16.67%) XenDesktop
9 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
10 2 (11.11%) XenApp

3rd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited 3rd Line Support in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with 3rd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 11 (61.11%) MS Exchange
2 8 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
5 1 (5.556%) IIS
5 1 (5.556%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) SAN
2 7 (38.89%) LAN
2 7 (38.89%) NAS
3 6 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (5.556%) DHCP
5 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.556%) WLAN
5 1 (5.556%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (5.556%) Firewall
5 1 (5.556%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (11.11%) Legal
1 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.556%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
1 2 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (5.556%) Celerra
2 1 (5.556%) CLARiiON
2 1 (5.556%) E-Learning
2 1 (5.556%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (38.89%) Windows XP
5 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 2 (11.11%) Linux
6 2 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) CRM
2 1 (5.556%) Migration
2 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) VBScript
2 1 (5.556%) VB
2 1 (5.556%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) BC Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) vSphere
4 3 (16.67%) XenDesktop
5 2 (11.11%) XenApp
6 1 (5.556%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) F5
3 6 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
5 3 (16.67%) NetApp
5 3 (16.67%) Citrix
5 3 (16.67%) Oracle
6 2 (11.11%) HP
7 1 (5.556%) Dell
7 1 (5.556%) EMC
7 1 (5.556%) Symantec
7 1 (5.556%) Websense
7 1 (5.556%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (5.556%) Blue Coat
Leeds, Yorkshire
The IT Operations team manage 50+ physical servers, including latest HP blade technology, and 300+ virtual servers with over 500Tb of SAN based data, delivering a first rate...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 20 May 2013